Ramblings from the creator of HomeSite, TopStyle, FeedDemon and Glassboard Android.

Monday, December 27, 2004

Disaster Relief

"This is the right time to stop what you normally do, get out of your little digital world that you assume is all-defining and all-encompassing (it’s not, really) and come back to reality...Very real people are experiencing very real pain, and you can do your part to help them recover."

I can't think of any words to write. For some reason this post has really affected me personally. I have a lot of friends from India and a lot of them have familes who have been affected by this. I know they will be very greatful for the money.

Nick,
My friend Tony and I have started a site (that should be up tonight) called www.givetwice.org which will allow folks to have a chunk of their www.amazon.com purchases to towards the relief effort.

Why give it to Amazon.com alone if you can have at least part of it put towards the relief effort?

I already own Topstyle and Feeddemon, but I've made a donation of the value of both to the Canadian Red Cross for the Asia Disaster. Thanks for doing this Nick. Hopefully it will inspire others to give to those who really need it.

I have owned a copy of TopStyle in the past (regretfully it isn't available for my beloved Mac :( ). The software is something I've always promoted to friends and "newbies" as it simply gets the concept of web-design right.

From now on I'll be bigging up Mr Bradbury in a similar way, since his views and contributions seem equally spot on :)

Excellent and generous effort sir - I hope everyone has as much initiative as you over the coming weeks.

Great thing you're doing, Nick. In case the Red Cross Red Crescent site gets swamped, I'm maintaining a pretty comprehensive list of online donation sites at http://www.personal.psu.edu/map408/tsunami.htm - this includes most of the links on Command Post and others. Keep up the great work.